java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/web/context/ContextCleanupListener issue

Question

I get this error

SEVERE: Exception sending context destroyed event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/web/context/ContextCleanupListener
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextDestroyed(ContextLoaderListener.java:80)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStop(StandardContext.java:5035)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.stopInternal(StandardContext.java:5687)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.stop(LifecycleBase.java:232)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.removeChild(ContainerBase.java:1028)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.undeploy(HostConfig.java:1498)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.checkResources(HostConfig.java:1425)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1646)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:328)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.backgroundProcess(ContainerBase.java:1374)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1546)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1556)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.run(ContainerBase.java:1524)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.web.context.ContextCleanupListener
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1720)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1571)
        ... 16 more

I look in my deployed folder however and I see the jar that contains that file, what am I doing wrong?

https://github.com/davidahines/spacechip/tree/spring_security

The issue is that when I try to go to localhost:8080/spacechip I get "The resource is unavailable."

There is my configuration.

Answer 1

The jar may be in your deployed folder, but is the jar (or your deployed folder with a wildcard) in the CLASSPATH?

Answer 2

try change dependency of spring-web to 3.0.5.RELEASE in your pom, you are currently have 2 version on classpath

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.5.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Answer 3

EnvironmentAware is located in the spring-context-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar, so you are missing that one.

Also recheck your Maven POM file so that you are not missing any other Spring library, like spring-web, spring-webmvc (you may have these since the DispatcherServlet class if found), spring-orm if you use an ORM like Hibernate, spring-jms if you use JMS, etc.